Cass-Davenport Historic District

Cass-Davenport Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Davenport, Chesterfield, and Naomi Apartments
Location	Detroit, Michigan United States
Coordinates
Built	1905
Architect	Baxter & O'Dell; Putnam & Moore
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Tudor Revival, Beaux-Arts
MPS	Cass Farm MPS
NRHP Reference #	97001100
Added to NRHP	September 22, 1997

The Cass-Davenport Historic District is a historic district of apartment buildings in Detroit, Michigan, roughly bounded by Cass Avenue, Davenport Street, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The Milner Arms Apartments (originally known as the Hotel Stevenson) abuts, but is not within, the district.

The district includes four apartment buildings near the corner of Cass Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard:

Name	Alternate Name	Image	Location	Date Built	Architectural Style
Davenport Apartments			On Davenport east of Cass	1905	Classical Revival
Chesterfield Apartments	Bon Rea		Corner of Davenport and Cass	1911	Beaux-Arts
Aderna Court Apartments	Wayne Court Apartments		3527 Cass at the corner of Martin Luther King	1924	Tudor Revival
Naomi Apartments	Cass Plaza Apartments		East side of Cass at the corner of Martin Luther King	1924	Italian Renaissance

These buildings are all three to six stories tall and are constructed of brick with limestone or cast stone details. The group of buildings reflect a change in apartment building design in Detroit: starting with the small scale, luxurious apartment buildings built near the turn of the 20th century and continuing to the large scale, high density apartment buildings constructed between 1915 and 1930.

Of the four, only the Aderna Court Apartments have been continuously occupied. However, as of 2006, the Chesterfield has been redeveloped and is again open. The Davenport and Naomi Apartments have also been slated for redevelopment.

See also

• Cass Corridor
• Cass Park Historic District